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>OK, what level causes Midi stuttering to stop then, under some fairly
>reasonable load? Of course ... if we set HZ to 100000, we'll get higher
>res still ... the question is how high it *needs* to be ;-)

No, some kernel code causes a triple-fault-and-reboot when the HZ is >=
10KHz. Maybe the highest possible value is 8192 Hz, not sure.


Jan Engelhardt
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